Mexican Restaurant White Sauce

I love that garlicy, slightly spicy white sauce my fav Mexican Restaurant serves alongside their salsa and chips! It is addicting! I wanted to recreate it at home so I could use it on everything! So I found some recipes online (no easy feat) and smushed them all together till I got what I thought tasted perfect!

Saw this on Jam Hands, and I had to check it out! This is a new one for me, but can’t wait to make this. Do you know how long it will keep? I may have to make half of the recipe…only two of us. Thanks!

Firstly, I had to laugh. I have just done a post on my version of Mexican Rice, hoping the Mexicans couldn’t find me because I wasn’t using AUTHENTIC ingredients – and the first thing on your ingredients is Miracle Whip!!! Ha ha – we have that here, I didn’t realise it was Mexican!! (and before you start thinking what is this crazy person on about, I am Australian and that is seriously funny)

Anyhow – once I get my San Diego-born partner in crime to agree to such a transgression, we are definitely going to test this one out – sounds good.

Oh wow, thank you so much for this recipe! It sounds great. Honestly, I have never had that white dip before, but I am a big fan of anything garlicky and I LOVE dipping my fries into anything that is not ketchup (my favorite is aoli of any kind)! I am so excited to make this! I also love your photo of it. We use them for everything around here! Now following you on Bloglovin’!

I think I need to eat more Mexican because I’ve never seen a white sauce served with chips. hmmm. Now I need to buy some olives and try this out, because it looks crazy good. Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friday

This is intriguing enough to pin. I’ve been in many Mexican restaurants and eaten in more than my fair share of south-of-the-border homes but have never run across a white sauce like this. Obviously it’s one of the must-make-soon recipes. Thanks for linking up at My Favorite Posts Show Off Weekend Party. Hope to see you again tomorrow.

The Mexican White Sauce recipe, can Mayo be substituted for the Miracle Whip?
I quit using Miracle Whip a long time ago when they made the first thing in it ‘water’ in ingredients.
Some of my dishes started having liquid problems, or watery, after sitting and I realized it was from the Miracle Whip and changed over to Mayo and the problems disappeared.
Thanks.

I really don’t think you can substitute mayo in this recipe as it is the flavor of the miracle whip that you need in this recipe, however, with this recipe I have never had any issue with it getting watery :)

You could use Mexican Crema which is a little thinner than sour cream and might be what was used in an authentic Mexican recipe. You could also use regular mayo that is thinned with a little milk to get the consistency of Crema. If you want to reduce calories you could try using Greek yogurt.

Can I just tell you how amazing this is! I’ve only had this sauce at Virginia Mexican restaurants and tried to find a recipe to make at home. The only thing I could find was queso dip. This is what I was looking for, only better!

I’m almost “afraid” of Miracle Whip…aaaccck Ö because of its sweetness. I’m a total mayo girl, but I can almost see where it would make a sauce taste delicious. So, I’ll buy my first jar of Miracle Whip EVER and give your sauce a whirl. Just sounds too amazing not to try. Thanks for sharing!

I must start this by saying I was born in east Texas, grew up in south-west Texas & lived in Houston, Texas until retiring in 2006. I have never seen or heard of this “sauce”. It sounds interesting, but the closest I can come to it is the White Cheese Dip, which I love. Thought I had eaten in nearly every Mexican restaurant from Houston to Dallas to El Paso. But I’ll give this one a shot. Let you know how it works out. Dee Dee

at first I did not realize you were saying to use 30 oz. of Miracle Whip in the recipe. It says Miracle Whip jar so I thought you were going to use the jar to store the sauce in. Now I get it! You actually use 30 oz. of Miracle Whip in the recipe. Glad I could figure that out, duh! Recipe sounds great, I am going to try it. Thanks.

I looked at several other recipes on the internet before deciding to give yours a go. Yours was the only one that called for olives, which intrigued me. I only made 1/4 batch to start out with. The only change I made was to use half Miracle Whip and half mayonnaise. It is EXCELLENT! My only problem is that I half to wait for 24 hours before consuming the rest! I can’t wait! Thanks for the recipe!

None of our local Mexican restaurants serve this so I’m excited to try it. I just have a couple of questions. Why is it you use garlic and garlic salt; then you use hot sauce, cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes. Why the duplication? Also, I’m assuming the olive juice is from the pimento stuff olives but you put it at the bottom rather than right under the olives. What size olives as I get the huge ones from Costco.

Correct the juice is from the pimento olives. I just use the regular sized olives from the grocery store. The duplication of some of the flavors and heat elements are just what happens to make this sauce tick, there is vinegar in hot sauce which adds a different flavor than the flakes and the cayenne pepper blends a little better than the flakes and the flakes add a good heat. Fresh garlic provides a bite to the sauce while the garlic salt bumps the garlic flavor and adds a little salt to the recipe.

I just made this today with whatever I had on hand.
It had turned out insanely awesome.
I just used half of all the ingredients coz i didn’t need too much
Miracle whip
Garlic cloves
Garlic powder unsalted
Milk
Sour cream
Oregano
Chili flakes
Fresh jalapeno

Glad to read that there are others who find Miracle Whip unpleasant. I’ll try it with real mayo and add some sweet pickle juice…just a bit; don’t want this to be sweet…or I’ll look for the table cream as Walmart. Thanks for those suggestions.

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